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Old 08-28-2004, 10:18 AM   #1
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Once again spyware clogs up my hard drive. Right.
I update my adaware. start running the scan. It looks like I'm very infected.
Suddenly an error thingie pops up, you know the one. A process has been stopped, save your work, the computer will restart in t minus...

Now i have to watch the computer restart without any way to finish the scan or removing the spyware.

What should i do? Is there any way to overide the shut down?
Has anyone else had a simmilar problem?

I apriciate any advice, thanks!

EDIT:
I forgot, im using windows XP.
I tried checking if the message itself was a process i could shut down but i couldent find anything.
BTW This happens every time I try to run the scan.

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Old 08-28-2004, 10:37 AM   #2
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I don`t know what to suggest. Have you tried Spybot?
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Old 08-28-2004, 10:39 AM   #3
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will do, hang on a sec.
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Old 08-28-2004, 10:48 AM   #4
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Also, make sure you're using Ad-Aware version 6, with the latest updates to the build.
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Old 08-28-2004, 11:15 AM   #5
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To cancel a remote shutdown, or the shutdown box I think your seeing, open command, (Click start, run, and type "command" without the quotes), as soon as the shutdown box comes up, type "shutdown -a" (without the quotes") if this is what im thinking, that should terminate the shutdown sequence, and you should be able to finish your scan.
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Old 08-28-2004, 11:26 AM   #6
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you could try an online virus scan as well. i know larry has a wee bit of antivirus and spyware he knows about.
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Old 08-28-2004, 11:27 AM   #7
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Well, i ran spybot, found a few hundred problems. I removed them and voila! I could once again scan using adaware. I feel very refreshed, thanks everybody! [img]smile.gif[/img]

Hivetyrant, I will definitely keep that in mind, could be very useful, Thanks.

- May spybot run on next startup?
- Why yes, yes it may.
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Old 08-28-2004, 11:32 AM   #8
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Quote:
Originally posted by bjorn:
Well, i ran spybot, found a few hundred problems. I removed them and voila! I could once again scan using adaware. I feel very refreshed, thanks everybody! [img]smile.gif[/img]

Hivetyrant, I will definitely keep that in mind, could be very useful, Thanks.

- May spybot run on next startup?
- Why yes, yes it may.
I`m glad that it works now. [img]smile.gif[/img]
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Old 08-28-2004, 03:22 PM   #9
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Cool! Check through the forum's older posts, but there are about half a dozen things you should run regularly now, including:

1. Spybot
2. Ad Aware
3. HiJack This
4. Zone Alarm (or other firewall -- I know, Willow [img]smile.gif[/img] )
5. Panda or AVG antivirus (or others)
6. Mozilla Firefox (instead of Internet Explorer)

*edit* forgot to add..
7. Trend Micro's Housecall -- online virus scan, just to make sure that your scanner is also clean. www.trendmicro.com
*/edit*

Life shouldn't have to be so hard... but it is. Glad you're back on the straight and narrow, and if I were you, I'd run the first two at least once a week. I now run them daily.

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Old 08-28-2004, 04:04 PM   #10
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While on topic I don`t have any AV program or firewall. So after installing Avast! and AntiVir (from Larry`s post) I found one virus. And of course I am using Mozilla. Also I was thinkhing on getting Thunderbird client. Any opinions?

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